Bringing County Spending Under Control with Automated Expense and Invoice Processes

A SAP Concur blog post aimed at county governments examines how manual expense and invoice processes undermine spending control. It notes that employees delay submitting travel expense reports because the process is time-consuming, so organizations may not know total travel costs until weeks later; vendor invoice sign-off takes an estimated 11 days from receipt; and accounting and finance staff each spend an estimated 14 hours a week processing expenses and another 13 hours handling vendor invoices. It recommends capturing spending earlier via a central invoice portal, purchase order processes, and mobile receipt capture, and using automation to cut errors and fraud risk and unify data for…